July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
486 pages
13h 49m
English
To overcome the problems of the sigmoid function, we will introduce an activation function named hyperbolic tangent function (TanH). The equation of TanH is given in Figure 9.34:

This function squashes the input region in the range of [-1 to 1] so its output is zero-centric, which makes optimization easier for us. This function also suffers from the vanishing gradient problem, so we need to see other activation functions.
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